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School Partnerships

AppRISE: Application for Readiness In Schools and Learning Evaluation

Be one of the first to use our gamified and scalable universal screener in your schools, while simultaneously helping us validate the app and ensure that we deliver trusted results.

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What is this app?

About

Developed by researchers at MIT, UCSF, UConn, and Curious Learning
A free open-source mobile app
Measures a wide range of literacy and cognitive skills
As reliable as conventional assessment tools

For Every Young Child

Designed for all young children 3 to 8, including English learners and those with or at-risk for developing learning disabilities.

Universal Screener

Gauges school readiness
Identifies risk for reading & other learning disabilities that will allow early intervention
Monitors progress over time

Engaging

A child-friendly, gamified app that takes place in a cohesive virtual world

Scalable

Individual or small group administration with minimal, untrained adult supervision

Evidence-based

Developed by researchers based on research. You can help us by being part of our validation to ensure all teachers, pediatricians and families have a trusted tool.

Who can participate?

Schools and Districts:

with a large population of diverse students.
that are motivated to implement universal screening and screening for dyslexia.
with students in preschool to grade 3.
with teachers and parents who want to change student outcome!

What's in it for the schools and families?

No cost to the schools or families

Early access to the app

Receive results from the app and established tools (e.g. DIBELS, Woodcock Johnson)

Receive related products such as updates on normed scores, dashboard feature, individualized resources

Receive early intervention with GraphoGame, the only gamified and evidence-based reading instructional computer program to support all your students or only those at-risk for dyslexia. We will work with your schools and families to implement

TIMELINE

Here are the typical steps once we discuss and agree on general terms and time frame:

  1.We complete any IRB forms, district application and any other paperwork

2. We provide information sessions to districts, schools, teachers and parents upon request.

  3. Teachers hand out and collect consent forms from families.

4. We come in with our trained assessors to schools on your preferred dates for assessment. The full version takes about 3 hours per child. It can be 30 min per session spread over time, or all done in a day--in our experience working with kids for long hours, they like the individual attention! We expect to work with 5-6 children a day, and to be in each school for 1-2 weeks.

  5. For qualified schools, we will return at another time later in the year for a shorter session.

Assessment Domains

AppRISE provides a comprehensive assessment of foundational skills, targeted assessments in any of these domains:

Pre-literacy

Rapid automatized naming
Letter name/sound knowledge
Blending words
Vocabulary

Literacy

Sight word and pseudoword reading

Developmental

Motor speed

Executive function and cognition

Nonverbal reasoning
Vocabulary
Visuospatial and auditory short term and working memory
Processing speed
Directed attention
Inhibition
Set shifting

Contact us now to start using AppRISE in your school district this Spring!

One of the best resources we have to fuel our research comes from the generous and visionary support of people like you – people who share our quest to improve the quality of learning for children.

Partners and Funders

Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation
Anonymous Foundation
The Potter Family
Raymond and Laura DePole

This project was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, through UCSF-CTSI Grant Number UL1 TR000004. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.